Charles Lamb Quotes
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb
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Author Details:
Type:
Critic Quotes
Category:
English Critic Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 10, 1775
Date of Death:
July 27, 1834
Nationality:
English
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Select Charles Lamb Quotations:
I could never hate anyone I knew.
Charles Lamb
It is good to love the unknown.
Charles Lamb
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Charles Lamb
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Charles Lamb
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
Charles Lamb
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lamb
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Been,
Better,
Book,
Buttered,
Dirt,
Dog,
Having,
Know,
Known,
Long,
Our,
Own,
Read,
Tea,
Topography,
Trace,
Us,
Which
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All Charles Lamb Quotations:
A book reads the better which...
A laugh is worth a hundred...
A pun is not bound by...
Anything awful makes me laugh. I...
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Boys are capital fellows in their...
Cards are war, in disguise of...
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony...
Credulity is the man's weakness, but...
For thy sake, tobacco, I would...
He is no lawyer who cannot...
Here cometh April again, and as...
I always arrive late at the...
I am determined that my children...
I could never hate anyone I knew.
I have had playmates, I have...
I love to lose myself in...
I'd like to grow very old...
It is good to love the unknown.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Let us live for the beauty...
Man is a gaming animal. He...
My motto is: Contented with little...
My theory is to enjoy life...
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one...
Nothing puzzles me more than the...
Pain is life - the sharper, the...
Riches are chiefly good because they...
Shakespeare is one of the last...
She unbent her mind afterwards - over...
Some people have a knack of...
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
The greatest pleasure I know is...
The human species, according to the...
The man must have a rare...
The measure of choosing well, is...
The most common error made in...
The red-letter days, now become...
The teller of a mirthful tale...
Tis the privilege of friendship to...
To be sick is to enjoy...
We gain nothing by being with...
We grow gray in our spirit...
What is reading, but silent conversation.
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